Thy Biography of Bayland Rippenkroeger Growing up in Northern California, Bayland had a healthy open minded point of view of athletics. For examples football, track, wrestling, mountain bikes, stand up jet skis, motocross, snowboarding, trampoline, etc. Finding it fascinating to test ones bodies limits in certain areas. The Rippenkroegers are an athletic family. Bayland's Uncle Larry Rippenkroeger in fact is a world class Jet Ski racer, along with becoming a legendary stunt performer. Hence Bayland's foot in the door to the stunt community, the perfect occupation for an all around sports radical. Growing up realizing a human can live their life performing stunts is an awesome thing, if you're smart enough to wear pads while doing them. With TV shows airing like Jackass during Bayland's early 20s did not help this mindset, along with his Father's Evel Knievel skyrocket models. Bayland's Father is an avid mountain biker, that rode with Bayland on many mountains on this planet. The bike trails taught Bayland the respect of gravity, how hard the earth is, and the art of the crash... With these skills, mindset, college degree in hand, Larry shipped Bayland off to Singapore. To perform in the live action stunt show Water World inside the Universal Studios theme park. Next was Los Angeles, to perform at the Water World show in Hollywood. With a new respect to the harsh reality of the film world, Bayland moved to Atlanta. Now wearing more pads then ever, learning many branches of the film world along the way, cameras, drones, water safety. Still perfecting the art of the crash. Yeehaw Show less «